Who do you get help from to discharge the responsibilities you have listed in C1 ? How do they help you ?
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Explanation:
Spinal cord injury occurs when something interferes with the function or structure of the cord. This can include consequences of a medical illness or trauma resulting in over stretching the nerves, a bump, the bone of the vertebra pressing against the cord, a shock wave, electrocution, tumors, infection, poison, lack of oxygen (ischemia), cutting or tearing of the nerves. Spinal cord injury can occur as a fetus develops, from trauma or medical conditions.
Results of a spinal cord injury can appear differently depending on the type and location of the injury. The most common is loss of motor, sensory and slowing of some of the body’s internal organs (autonomic nerve function) below the level of the injury. In general, the higher in the spinal cord an injury occurs, the more function, sensation and internal body functions will be affected.
Injury that affects all four limbs is called tetraplegia (this used to be called quadriplegia). An injury that affects the lower half of the body is called paraplegia. The significance of these injuries is much more than just arm and leg movement as sensation and all body systems are affected.
Complete injuries are those where there is no function or sensation below the level of injury. It really means all messages to and from the brain are completely blocked. It does NOT mean your spinal cord is completely severed. Complete injuries indicate no messages are getting through the affected area of injury in the spinal cord. Incomplete injury indicates some messages are getting through. Incomplete injuries are unique to the person. No two incomplete injuries are exactly the same, although they can be similar. Abilities of an individual with an incomplete injury depend on which nerves are transmitting messages.
Individuals with spinal cord injury from medical causes might have several locations of injury resulting in mixed results. Disease caused spinal cord injury evolves over time as the medical condition progresses. An individual may be able to compensate for some muscle weakness or sensory loss in the early stages of the disease. However, at some point, a critical level of disease will occur where function or sensation is severely diminished or lost. No one knows exactly when this time will occur as it is individual for everyone by type of disease and progression.